JERUSALEM, Israel – President Donald Trump wrapped up his Middle East visit in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, a country with which the U.S. has had close ties for decades and was the first to sign the Abraham Accords with Israel.

The four-day visit may even have opened the doors for Syria to join the accords.

Israel is quietly opening diplomatic channels with the new Syrian regime after the president met Syria's new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in Saudi Arabia and lifted sanctions against the country.

Celebrations broke out in Damascus, and al-Sharaa hailed the move as "historic and courageous."

"Syria pledges to be a land of peace and joint action and to be loyal to every hand extended to it," he stated. "Syria will no longer be an arena for the struggle for influence or a platfor

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